![]() ![]() And Zambra’s latest novel represents, I think, his deepest achievement. Their other distinguishing characteristic is that they are written with startling talent. All of them are marked by a uniquely manic brevity. His third, “Ways of Going Home,” which has just been published in a translation by Megan McDowell, uses a comparatively gargantuan 139. His second, “The Private Lives of Trees,” requires 98. “Bonsai,” his first, takes up only 86 miniature pages. But if you held his novels in your hand, then something much stranger would be immediately apparent. His career, in other words, has the usual global vibe. He has figured on Granta’s list of best young Spanish-language novelists, and the Bogotá39 project. He was born in 1975, and teaches literature at the Diego Portales University in Santiago. Zambra is a Chilean who has so far written three novels. Take, for instance, the case of Alejandro Zambra. ![]() In a summary, most literary careers nowadays - in New York or Zagreb - can look eerily similar. ![]()
0 Comments
Leave a Reply. |